People Matter

Manager, Worldwide Support(CSA Team - Customer Service Advocate)

Nutanix

Nutanix

Customer Service
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Posted on Jan 7, 2026
Hungry, Humble, Honest, with Heart.
The Opportunity
We are seeking an experienced and customer-focused Manager, Worldwide Support, to lead a global team of Customer Service Advocates who support inquiries related to licensing, subscriptions, and the customer portal. This role is crucial in ensuring a seamless customer experience across the entire product licensing lifecycle, including account access, implementation of subscriptions and billing solutions, and usage of the self-service portal. The ideal candidate possesses strong leadership skills, operational excellence, and the ability to collaborate across functions.

Key Responsibilities:

Team Leadership & People Management

  • Lead, manage, coach, and scale a team of high-performing Customer Service Advocates across geographies and time zones; handling licensing, entitlement, and portal-related customer interactions.
  • Drive a culture of accountability, customer empathy, and continuous improvement.
  • Conduct regular performance reviews, coaching sessions, and career development planning.
  • Ensure that staffing, scheduling, and workload distribution are appropriate to meet service levels.

Customer Experience & Service Delivery

  • Own day-to-day service delivery for licensing and portal support, ensuring timely and accurate resolution of customer requests.
  • Monitor and improve key service metrics, including NPS, CSAT, IR SLAs, TTR, resolution times, and backlog.
  • Serve as an escalation point for complex or high-impact customer issues, ensuring effective resolution.
  • Identify recurring customer pain points and drive improvements to reduce repeat contacts, including follow-up on customer feedback.

Operational Excellence

  • Establish and optimize processes, workflows, workforce planning and standard operating procedures for licensing and portal support.
  • Ensure compliance with licensing policies, entitlement rules, and data governance standards.
  • Partner with serviceability, licensing engineering and learning teams to maintain high service quality and knowledge readiness.
  • Leverage data and reporting to drive insights, predict trends, and improve efficiency.
  • Partner with stakeholders to produce newsletters and prepare and present Quarterly Business Reviews (QBRs) that highlight outcomes, trends, and value realization
  • Drive adoption of Next-gen AI-enabled tools for customer excellence.

Cross-Functional Collaboration

  • Partner closely with Sales Operations, Renewals, SRE, SaaS, Logistics PMs and Engineering teams to resolve systemic issues.
  • Provide customer and frontline feedback to influence portal usability, automation, and self-service enhancements.
  • Support new product, licensing model, and portal feature launches from a service readiness perspective.

Continuous Improvement & Enablement

  • Champion automation, self-service, and knowledge base enhancements to improve customer experience and reduce contact volume.
  • Drive change management initiatives and ensure smooth adoption of new tools and processes.
  • Support global consistency in service delivery across regions and time zones.

Required Qualifications:

  • 12+ years of experience in customer service or customer operations, with at least 4-5 years in a people management role.
  • Proven experience managing teams handling licensing, subscriptions, entitlements, or customer account/portal support.
  • Strong understanding of customer service metrics (NPS, CSAT, IR SLAs, TTR, resolution times, install base, cases, and backlog).
  • Experience working with Salesforce CRM, customer portals, and other SaaS-based solutions.
  • Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and escalation-handling skills.

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Experience in SaaS, technology, or subscription-based business models.
  • Exposure to global or multi-region customer service operations.
  • Strong analytical skills with experience using data to drive operational decisions.
  • Experience leading process improvement, automation, or self-service initiatives.

Leadership Attributes:

  • Customer-first mindset with a strong focus on detail and accuracy.
  • Calm, structured, and decisive leadership style, especially during escalations.
  • Ability to balance operational rigor with empathy and people development.
  • Comfortable navigating ambiguity and driving clarity across teams.

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